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The Jesuits as Educators (Classic Reprint)

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The Jesuits as Educators (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Jesuits as Educators These were, first: to render education free, and next, to safe guard it from the moral contamina tion to which medieval university life was so wantonly exposed. For the purpose of accomplishing the former of these two designs he assembled around him a body of co-laborers. A society of educators was organized. They pledged themselves to give ed ucation gratis. Once sufficient foun dations, made by an original grantfrom municipality or wealthy person age, had been provided for the mainte nance of their colleges and their own individual support, nothing was asked or accepted from the students by way of tuition. No obligations or conditions, wrote' Ignatius in his Constitutions, are to be admitted that would impair the integrity of our principle, which is: To give gratuitously what we have received This object was all the more readily attainable as they were vowed to poverty which reduced their personal necessities to a mini mum and enabled them to operate their institutions upon a compara tively economic basis. How econom ically, is evinced by more than one well authenticated fact in their his tory. As might have been expected this revival of free education was welcomed in some quarters, and vio lently assailed in others. The people at large hailed it as a forward move ment and a relief Hitherto de barred. For want of means, from all participation in the advantages of a university course, the humblest now saw a way opened to them in another direction leading up to the same if. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Release date NZ
April 23rd, 2018
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Illustrations
14 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white
Imprint
Forgotten Books
Pages
72
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Dimensions
152x229x4
ISBN-13
9781333351366
Product ID
25923397

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